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A Business View.

This is the story Of an old Hebrew who was
very ILL., The doctor tried to comfort him. He
would not be comforted. ''YOu are not going
to die yet" " Yes, / am; i know it," "Not
a bit of it. You'll live to be So" Eighty?
No won't. I'm sure of it," ''Why?" why
should the Lord take me at so when he can
get me at 65?"
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Her Age Before Swearing.

Magitrate-A little difficulty between ladies,
eh? Has the complainant been sworn?
Plaintiffs Lawyer-Not yet.
Magistrate-What is your age, madam?
The omplainant-Nineteen.
Magistrate-You will now swear to tell the
truth, the whole truth, etc.
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An Irish RnlI
THarper's Magasias.I


A Boston servant, like many of her class.
does not know her age. She has lived with
one family IL years, and has always been %
But not long ago she read in the newspaper of
an old woman who had died at the age of 1O6.
Maybe I'm as auld as that mysilf." said she.
" Indade, / can't reminder the time Whin /
wasn't alive"
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GeorgIa,s UngalIant Go,ernor.


Gov. Gordon received somewhat unusual
request Saturday. 1t was from little miss of
II years in Thomaston, Ga, and asked for lock
of his hair. The Governor replied that he had
been married too long to have any hair left.
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Chicago Wants Fairchild.

Gen. Fairchild is one of the few men in the
United States who could have given adequate
expression to the sentiments of the crowd that
saw Doescher's umpiring at the Chicago Boston
game last Monday.
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$500 Reward.

We refer our readers to the advertisement of
the Chicago Stationery Co. in another part of
our paper, as being house of undoubted in
tegrity, aud one in which we believe they can
place the utmost confidence. Any orders en-
ton.
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IL Was q Sell.

For many years there has been in the Pub
lie Square in Cleveland, o., a large cannon
which was captured from the British in the war
of 1912. One night recently passer-by on his
way home.through the Square had his attention
drawn to the big gun. Something white seemed
to be attached TO it, and, on closer inspection.
he found this to be large label securely pasted
TO the guns surface. By the aid Of the electric
light he deciphered it. 1t read about as fol-
lows:
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Courtesles Properly Acknowledged.
TnoEofo Pal i

"Before being lynched Wednesday night"
says one of the Bells Dakota exchanges, Col.
Hossdealer handed US 81 and requested that the
Hayrake be continued to his family for another
year. The Colonel is gentleman and a pub
lic-spirited citizen. Our best wishes accompany
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Col. i. C. Walker, Trotting Editor Of the
Spirit of the Times, n. Y, and Gen. Rufus
Ingalls,, Quarteunasler General, u. S. A., both
recommend ST. Jacobs OH as without equal
as a horse remedy" Price fifty cents.
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THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.
Continued from 1st page.)
WAsHryGrOy Hume 4 IsS,

leck had anticipated. 1t at once elected
the following replies from Secretary Stanton
and President Lincoln:
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To AIaI.-Gen HALLECK.
1t soon transpired, however, that the glow
ing expectations raised in the public mind
by Hallecks sensational dispatch were
doomed to disappointment; that some of its
statements were exaggeratiOns and that
the principal one, touching Pope, to wit,
that he already reports 10000 prisoners
and deserters from the enemy" was abso-
lutely and wholly untrue.
Beauregard's report of the 18th of June,
made at Tupelo, although taken with the
allowances usually made for statements
coming from the enemy, helped to satisfy
the public mind of the untruthfulness of q
part, at least, of that dispatch. 1t further
helped, however, to unjustly fix the Odium
upon the shoulders of both Pope and Hal
leek instead of upon
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Your glorious dispatch has just been received,
and 1 have sent it into every State. The whole
land will soon ring with applause at the achieve
meut Of your gallant army and its able and vic
tOTiOuS commander. EDWIN ~ STATION
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To ATai.-Gen HALLEcK.

W A7hiNsEON June Y, lSOs.
Your dispatch Of to-day to Secretary of War re-
eeiyed. Thanks for the good news it brings.
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GROVER CLEVELAND.


This cannon. captured from the British In 1872.
will be presented to Queen Victoria in honor Of
the Jubilee. BY order.
GRnYER CIFYEIASn-
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One Fact

Is worth column OF rhetoric said an American states
man. IL Is fact, established by the testimony OF
thousands OF people, that Hoods sarsaparilla does
scrofula sat rheum, and diseases or aec
tiOns arising from impure state or low condition Of
the blood II also Oyercomes that tired feeling
soo appetite and gives strength 20 every part
Of The - stem. II You need good blood purifier tonc
appetizer. Try HOOIs Sarsaparilla. It will do you
good
MY daughter received much benefit from Hoods
sarsapariIla excellent tonic after protracted
tack OF bronchial pneumonia" REV. +. ii. ADAMS,
New Hartford Conn.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. 81 SIX for 3. Prepared only by
Q. l. HOOD CO., APotaecaries. Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
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WASHINGTON. Inne 4 1852

To Maj. Gen. HALLEcK, Corinth.
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THOSE OF HALLECK ALONE.

In that report Beauregard declared, touch
ing the Elliott raid on Bonneville May 30),
that instead of 1000 stand of smaIl-arras" +"
reported destroyed there, "t the truth is, not
to exceed 1,500, mostly inferior muskets,
were lost on that occasion" This statement
is entirely upset, however, by the reports of
Col. Elliott and Lieut.-COl. Hatch, of the I'd
Iowa Cav.
Beauregard's report more justly described
Halleck's telegraphic reports just given as
equally inaccurate, reckless and untrust-
worthy" touching the quantities of property
and stores alleged to have been destroyed
by the enemy at Corinth, and touching
Gen. POpeis alleged pressing pursuit., of
the enemy. Maj. Gen. Hallecl's dispatch
of June A" continues Beauregard, "was par
ticularly described as disgracefully untrue.
Possibly, however, he was
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Nothing, for example, can be wider from the
truth than that 10000 men and Il, 900 small
arms Of this army were captured or lost in
addition to those destroyed at Bonneville.
Some 500 inferior small-arms were accident
ally left by convalescents in a camp four
miles south of Corinth. No artillery Of any
description was lost; no clothing: no tents
worth removal were left standing"
While, therefore, il was generally acknowl-
edged at the time that Beauregard's report
was quoted from in the Northern as well as
Southern papers, that some of these dis
patches, especially that Of June 4, were gross
exaggerations, yet so completely was Hal
leck master of the art Of wheedling the press
that very few supposed him to be guilty of
absolute Justification, and the public was
brought to believe that, as Beauregard him.
self intimates Halleek must have
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NEW YORK,

The surviving members Of the seth ". Y.
will hold a Reunion at Addison Aug. 80.
The Reunion Of the survivors of the lI5th
y. Y. will be held at Waterford ON the 2Gth of
August.
The 10th New York Mozart Regiment) Vet
eran Association held their Reunion on Sat
urdRy, June 25, at Kings Hotel, Canarsie.
There were present Col. L. J. Riley, Col. VI. NJ.
Cannon, who brought the survivors home in
1865; Corpl James Tanner, Co. G, s7th N. Y.
which was consolidated with the 10th; Mai.
Geo. w. Cooney, Secretary of the Gettysburg
Monument Commission; Ex-Assemblyman NJ.
c. Earl; Capt. Joseph Murphy, Capt James
X. Stevens, Capt. Isaac Lawrence, AdIt T..
Hendriekson, q. A. Schurmann, Kearney's
bugler and,40 others. Officers were elected
as follows: President, Col. NJ. VI. Cannon
Vice President, Mortimer, c. Earl; Sec'y, G. A.
Scharmann; Treas, Joseph Robbins; Sergeant
alarms, Otto Schroeder. The President ap-
pointed the following Executive Committee:
Comrades Riley, Murphy, Hendrickson, Law
renee, Walters, Rider and Levy. Col. Cannon
reported for the Monument Committee that
contract had been signed with the Smith
Granite Company Of Boston; the monument
10 be completed and in position by July ., 1888
The party thea adjourned to the dinning room
and enjoyed an excellent dinner. The next
Reunion viii be held at Gettsyburg, July 2,
1883
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sUEPEIsl OUR sToMAcHs,

and while on picket, IL not too near the enemy
was generally the best time 10 CARRY out the
surprise program. We used 10 take turns at
fOraging during the Winter Of ls6l-2
One morning after Capt Wilson, who was in
charge OF our part Of the line, had visited the
posts and returned 10 his headquarters, Al
Phillips and the writer set out up0n visit 10
the natives, armed with all the canteens and
haVersacks we could find. Some two miles IN
front OF our posi- was large plantation which
none OF the boys had visited, owing TO its great
distance from our lines, and the fact that-it
was not considered safe, for quite a number of
rebels were supposed TO be located near there.
lt was strictly against orders for us 10 be alb
sent from our post, but we placed confidence
an the belief that we would mol be caught dis
Obcying orders.
After We got started on our journey ] fool
ishly dared al 10 go with me 10 the distant
plantation.
Gosh darn ye I'll 60 if you will, he re-
piled.
This was moro than had bargained Cor, but
ID would not do for me 10 back out now that 4
had proposed u. j suggested the probability
oi It's being dangerous undertaking. and AT
sneeringly suggested that ] was a coward.
That decided the matter-not that WAS a
coward. but that we would visit the planta-
tion. When near the house we sat down 10
rest aud lay our plans for surrounding the
premises. Everything looked 10 be IN flour
ishing condition, and occasionally we heard
THE QUAcK or DUCK
or the joyful notes Of a rooster proudly pro.
claiming TO the world that all was quiet on the
Potomac We decided 10 pass 90 the rear of the
mansion, in hopes of not being discovered
When within few yards Of the house saw 4
colored woman open a window and place a
baking-pan containing a loaf of fresh made
bread on the Eindow-sin TO cool Telling al
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MICHIGAN,

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1t may hardly be believed, save by those
who already know of his base duplicity to-
ward Gen. Grant, that in this letter Halleck
uttered
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AN UNMITIGATED FALsEHooD.

uLteIcO
AN UNMITIGATED FALSEH0OD.
1t must be evident upon reflection however,
that he who could be guilty of the course
that Halleek pursued toward Gen. Grant,
must have been capable of pursuing a SINH
lar course toward any other army officer.
1t is fact susceptible of abundant proof
that Gen. Pope never reported to Halleck,
nor to any one else during the so-ealled
pursuit of the enemy from Corinth, Is TO-
600 prisoners and deserters from the enemy
and $1,000 stands of arms captured which
Halleck here says is the exact language of
Gen. Pope" and which the former telegraph
ed on the 4th of June, 1862. 1t is due to
brave, able and truthful soldier, that history
shall set Gen. Pope right in the estimation
of his countrymen by at least rendering to
him this
SCANT AND LONG-DELAYED JUSTICE.
It can be broadly alleged that Gen. Pope
never made any such statement of fact as
that attributed to him by Halleck No such
report or statement can be found The most
careful search of the official documents fails
to develop anything, directly or indirectly,
warrsnting either the language of HaIleek's
sensational dispatch of the Attn of June, or
his attempted defense of himself of July 3,
against BeauregarFs charge of disgraeeful
Justification, by trying TO shift the blame
upon Gen. POpe's innocent shoulders.
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MISSOURI.

VIM. Schaap, Atch
a Reunion of the sur
ing the National En-
st. Louis. Iwill tal
making "A roster Of I
boys will be so kin,
and company they b
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KENTUCKY.

d. w. Steele. Ashland: The Societ,
Northeastern Kentucky Veterans w
their fourth annual Reunion at Ash
Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. il an
which there will be an organization
l4th, 22d and 39th Ky. Gen. ID. w.
will preside over the meeting, TO whic
soldiers in reach of here are invited Il
A special invitation is given 10 the ol
ans Of the 10Th and 42d Ohio TO meet
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BEEN DUPED BY POPE

the foIIoWIng deIlberateIy-penned letter:
CORISTH Miss. July g. 1862.
In accordance with your instructions telegraph
you daily what information I receive of events in
this Department stating whether official or unof-
hcial. and il official giving the authority. not
responsible for the truth Of the statements thus
communicated. have seen published statement
Of Gen. Beauregard that my telegram respecting
the capture of locomotives, prisoners and arms,
contained many lies lines The number of
locomotives captured was reported 10 be nine, and
so telegraphed you. Gen. Beauregard says only
seven. It turns out on full investigation that we
captured H. Ia regard 10 ts number of prisoners
and taken tsiegrdphed The erdct language of
Gen. Pope. II IL VdS erroneous. he responsibility is
his. not mine. o. H W. HALLECR
Fol- Hon, T. G-rk NTasa
Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-03
vasabonds of PIgeondom.


 A pathetic picture of bird life may be seen in the roof-covered piers that jut out from West street into the North river. Tramps and vagabonds of pig eondom roost, breed and make their homes in the caves and rafters of these docks, picking up a preea- rious existence from leakages of grain bags brought for shipment and from food thrown overheard from steamers moored near by. 'Longshoremen and the old salts employed in the neighborhood of the wharves tell curious stories of and entertain strange sup positions concerning these birds. The ma jority of them have been run over and hop on one leg, or have broken wing. But woe to anyone who would Intentionally harm these feathery waifs of the docks. Their wei fare is guarded as carefully by the steve dores as is the sea gull's by the sailor.
 The keen instinct of pigeons is well il- lustrated by those who fly out to meet the ships where stewards are friendly and rigid frugality does not prevail. The birds seem to know the time for the approach Of the English craft. French and German vessels are ignored, for on these all the crumbs from the table are utilized. So tame do these pigeons become that many of them are decorated with ribbons by sailors who have fed them.
 It is a sad sight to see the old crippled birds care for the squabs when their blood is shed by bruise received in the confusion on the piers The old pigeons are frequent ly fed by the young and strong of wi ng when they are too decrepit to fly out to meet the ships and when foo d is scarce on the docks.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-03

for the exchange of parcels. If this is so there should be as little delay as possible 5 making such treaties.
 Many paupers have come from England to this country, but the importation of any more paupers into England is seriously ob- jected to. At the east end of London it is calculated that there are from 4e, 900 to 5O,- 900 Jews imported by labor contractors from Austria and Poland to fill the places of native strikers. The poor creatures do not know word of the language and are feeced by their employers without mercy. The wretched pay they receive hardly keeps them from starvation, and the discontent en- gendered by hard treatment and ignorance is making them an element of danger to the community. A few days ago, too, seven or eight hundred Greek gypsies who had been pelled from Sunderland, as their filthy hab- it's threatened disease to the city.
 George G. McMurty, one of the leading steel manufacturers of Pittsburg, Pennsylva- nia, has something interesting to say about free trade and protection as follows: Free tTdOo WOulo nuTt laDOr severely. It WOulQ hurt capital as well, for you cannot hurt one without hurting the other. The bringing of our labor into competition with foreign labor would quickly have 8 retrograding effect. There are men in our works who were last year earning $15 week in England who are getting $33 week merely by crossing the water. In a general way wages are about double here what they are in England in our
 line. The item of cost of living must be
 considered in that, of course. One of my
 most intelligent workmen is man who was for fifteen years at the head of department in one of the largest works in England. He has made a careful comparison of the cost ot living and tells me that there is scarcely any l difference. He can live as cheaply here as | there if he lives in the simplicity that was enforced there, but is not necessary here. | have workman in my employ who never | had $15 to his name, who has been in thi. l country about year, who has partly paid fo | thousand dollar house and will have i | cleared inside of another six months. Thest
 are only pointers in a general condition O | thingz in the labor field consequent on pro lection
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ETHEREAL.

Keely claims to run his motor by ether. But he don't do either.-Lowell Courier.
 Take care of the cents and somebody else will look out for the dollars.-Boston Tran. . script
 Mistress ito new servant)-''We have breakfast generally about s o'clock" New servant-Well mum, if I ain't down to it don't wait. "-Harpers Bazar.
 Life is full of disappointments, and man realizes it while after he has planted some bird seed with the idea that he was going to raise canaries. Journal.
 Wife Sunday morning in Boston)-fAre you going to hear Joseph Cook preach this morning dear?" Husband-''No. I think I'll go and see the Hon. Mike Kelly practice. J IN. Y. Sun.
 "Young man," said an apostle solennly, "do you realize, when you retire at nig ght, that you may be called before the morning dawns?n 'Yes, sir," responded the young man, ''I realize it fully. I'm the father of three weeks old baby"
 Lightning rod agent-':Its dangerous to be under this tree in a thunder storm. One of us might be killed" Victim-''Well, if you are killed you won't be able to talk any more; and if I am killed can't hear you. So guess we'd better stay. Life. A Missouri girl waved her hand at strane- CT, and in three days they were married. It is not often that retribution follows so close ly upon the wake of a naughtiness; but in this instance it will probably be generally admitted that the punishment fits the crime. Boston Transcript "We don't have such sermons as they had when the apostles preached" said MT. Nev- ergo. ENo," replied the parson, land we don't have such congregations as the apostles had, either. Paul might preach to my con- gregation for six weeks, and then they'd be two months behind with his salary.'' boys was making life burden to the quietel and don't be so boisterous," called the moth CT impatiently. 'Well, don't want to be girl-sterous," came the prompt retort, and that mother wonders what she has done te merit the sad visitation of being the parent of punster.
 ''No, sir," thundered the old gentleman
 t'I have made up my mind that my daughter shall never marry man who plays poker. 'She might do a great deal worse, sir." Impossible. Poker has proved the ruina- ton of thousands of men and it's victims never recover from the infatuation. Sht could never do worse."
 "Excuse me, sir, but I'm sure she could She might marry some fellow that thinks he plays poker"
 The old man thought it overwhelming ton Critic.
 Miss, Eudora von Bloom was much puzzled witt doubt
 Whether to ask her mash in or let him stay When her father appeared with club long ant stoubt,
 And, although troubled with goubt, He belabored that loubt And put him to painful and inglorious roubt- Which caused Miss Eudora to go to bed in a poubt -NOrrlStOwn Herald.